Mixed in 1980

Chapter 517 Endorsement
"Anyone who doesn't want their family fortune?"

Many people find it hard to understand that, in the traditional view, the ruthless methods used by wealthy families to fight for their inheritance are no less than a life-or-death struggle.

It is also most commonly seen in the news.

Almost every time a patriarch of a wealthy family passes away, the hottest news during that period is often not about the deceased, but about the farcical situation caused by the children fighting over the inheritance.

Even ordinary families are the same.

When a family faces demolition and relocation, disputes arise over how much the son and daughter will receive, often leading to bitter feuds and even turning parents and children against each other.

"Why don't they want it?" Xiao Sa asked on behalf of the audience, voicing their doubts.

Chen Fan rolled his eyes at him: "If you had unlimited money, would you rather do what you like or work a 9-to-5 job and earn more money?"

Xiao Sa blinked, and after a while said, "I haven't experienced it, so I don't know."

"Taking in the family fortune comes with responsibility."

Chen Fan, smoking a cigarette, said dejectedly, "Taking over a company means supporting its employees. Take Chinatown Supermarket, for example, which has 15 employees in China and over 130 million globally."

"What a huge responsibility it is to support so many people."

"If I had had the means back then, to inherit a fortune that I could never spend in several lifetimes, I wouldn't want any property. Living a good life would be better than anything else."

“That makes sense,” Xiao Sa nodded.

While businesses often have the final say, there are also many government requirements, especially for companies that provide a large number of jobs.

Once you take on a task, it means you're taking on responsibility.

"We all hope that the boss will come to the company to take charge."

Xu Jinqiu sighed and added, "They're all such a handful. Only the boss can keep them in check; he's more effective than any of us."

"The second brother is capable, but his personality is too troublesome. He is domineering, scheming, ruthless, protective of his own, petty, and vengeful."

"I inherited all of Chen Fan's flaws from him."

“Teacher Xu, you shouldn’t talk about your own child like that.” Ni Ping smiled. What kind of nonsense labels are these? They don’t sound like nice people.

"It is what it is."

Xu Jinqiu picked up the teapot and poured tea for everyone: "Our third child is the best. He is tolerant, generous, and has always been a gentleman since he was a child."

"When Chen Fan was five years old, he realized it wouldn't work."

“In our family situation, it’s not right for our child to be tolerant and generous. We need to teach him to be more shrewd so that he won’t be easily fooled when he grows up.”

"When he was young, Chen Fan wrote a book called 'If I Were a Liar.' At the time, the book was banned because people said that if it was published, the social moral system would regress by thirty years."

"I used this book to teach my third son back then."

"He was specifically instructed to teach the book only to the third son and not to let the second son see it. As a result, the second son stole the book. He not only understood it, but he was also able to apply what he learned in practice."

"She's only five years old!"

"Using the tricks in the book, he swindled all the pocket money from the kindergarten children and even tricked other children into asking their families for money."

"So smart at five years old?" Ni Ping exclaimed in surprise.

Xu Jinqiu said disdainfully, "In terms of intelligence, the second one is indeed a genius. It was reported before. He is Chen Yanjin, who was specially recruited by the Peking University Mathematics Elite Class."

"I earned dual master's degrees in mathematics and economics at the age of 19, and a doctorate in economics at the age of 22."

"The eldest child is also a top student. When he was in the first year of junior high school, if he encountered a problem he couldn't solve, he would ask the second child, who was in the third grade. The second child didn't even need to study; he could figure it out just by looking at the book."

Upon hearing this, Ni Ping looked at Xiao Sa.

With a hint of amusement in his eyes, this guy once said: "Hey, sitting with you guys who still have to take exams gives me a strange sense of accomplishment. For someone like me who never took the college entrance exam, there's always some unspeakable pain in my heart."

Xiao Sa understood and scratched her head: "Special admissions are not all the same."

Some viewers in the live stream remembered that there had indeed been reports about Chen Yanjin, who had dealt with Wu Feifan, a popular young idol at the time, and sent him to jail.

He's definitely a ruthless person.

Later, it invested hundreds of billions to build the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and the Inner Mongolia-China Railway, making it a construction powerhouse. In retrospect, it seems to be a legacy of its predecessors.

"He is smart, but his personality is really a headache. From childhood to adulthood, he has always been a troublemaker, enjoying the thrill of intellectually crushing others."

At this point, Xu Jinqiu sighed and smiled wryly, rubbing her forehead.

Zeng Ali, however, did not take it to heart: "He has a lot of shortcomings, but it cannot be denied that the second son is the most suitable to manage the family, no worse than his father."

"Personality can be a real headache."

"If we're talking about good personality, the third child has to be the one. He's the kind of 'other people's child' that everyone wants to attend. We all scramble to go to parent-teacher conferences."

“We avoid the parent-teacher conferences for the other children, including our eldest. She’s a girl who’s always fighting at school and often chases after a group of boys.”

“I’m not like you,” Zhao Yuanyuan teased.

Many people laughed in front of their phone screens. The Chen family's children are really peculiar; the eldest daughter likes to fight.

The second child is also a troublemaker.

As for the third son, Xu Jinqiu continued, "Anyway, the third son is good in every way, except that he is not very shrewd. In order to make him more shrewd, we have been teaching him Machiavellianism and deception since he was a child."

"If the second brother likes to cheat people, then let him cheat the third brother."

"After being scammed a lot, you'll eventually learn to be more careful."

"The aftermath is that after the college entrance examination, the third child's score was clearly good enough to get into Peking University, but in order to stay away from the second child, he went to study at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou."

"However, he was ultimately honed by the second son, and the third son also did an excellent job after taking over Feixing Mobile. He was also very tough in external competition, which is great."

"The fourth and third children are twins, a boy and a girl."

At this point, Xu Jinqiu gritted her teeth: "Just like Zhao Yuanyuan, so lazy, the mother and daughter are cut from the same mold."

"That's not good."

Zhao Yuanyuan raised an eyebrow slightly and said sarcastically, "All she has to do in her life is keep her older and younger brothers happy and she won't have to worry about anything else."

"Isn't your fourth child doing quite well? Through jade pebble identification and jade pebble markets, she's turned Hetian jade pebbles into financial products, and even Peking University made an exception to let her give lectures," Ni Ping said in surprise.

Xu Jinqiu said disdainfully, "That was because I was forced to."

“I knew she was lazy since she was little. I thought that when she grew up, she would have to do something serious. Since she liked jade, I went around buying Hetian jade and jadeite for her to hoard.”

"Later, the little girl wanted to raise a baby panda."

"Her father built the Mentougou Wildlife Park specifically to ensure the legality of the procedures, thinking that she could take over when she grew up, so that it would be a proper business."

"As a result, I didn't want to do anything."

"In order to avoid taking over the business, she went on to pursue a master's and doctoral degree, just wanting to kill time at school. The things she did recently were all forced upon her."

"This girl is capable too."

"We could let her take over the family business, but she absolutely refuses. There's nothing the family can do. At least she has a proper job, so let her be."

Viewers of the live stream are no strangers to Chen Yanyin. When Chen Yanyin said she was lazy, everyone just took it as self-deprecation, but now they know it's all true.

That being said, the fourth princess was truly favored.

She loves jade, so her family hoards it for her everywhere; she loves red pandas, so her family runs a zoo for her, one of the largest zoos in the country.

She truly enjoys immense favor.

"Anyway, apart from the third child, none of them are easy to deal with, especially the fifth child, who is a real headache."

Zeng Ali picked up the conversation, shaking her head vigorously: "I've never seen such a troublesome kid. He's had ADHD since he was little, he just can't stop."

"Xiao Wu is fine, don't complain unnecessarily."

Zhao Yuanyuan glanced at her eldest sister and teased, "He's a bit mischievous, but he's the only one among the five kids who understands one principle: things that can be solved with money aren't really problems." "Knowing how to use money to get things done, that's a skill in itself."

Zeng Ali curled her lip in disdain: "Anyone can spend money. That little rascal, he's only in his first year of high school, and he booked a whole resort for the summer vacation and invited the whole class to go."

"Showing off wealth and saying nonsensical things."

"When the second son found out, he was furious. Two days later, he threw him into the Daliang Mountains. He ate potatoes for two months without eating any meat and lost 20 pounds."

"The second summer he was sent to Xihai Gu, and the third summer he was sent to Maduo, both of which were the poorest places in the country. They tormented him for three whole years."

"Even this isn't properly ground."

"Go straight to Xiamen University, far away from home, for complete freedom. The idea is to change girlfriends every semester and have enough for two mahjong tables during the four years of university."

"I had two girlfriends in my freshman year."

“Every time we break up, he gives me 300,000 yuan and says we're not a good match and you'll definitely find someone better. Pshaw, isn't that just being a scumbag?”

"Back then, he also had a nickname, 'Walking 300,000,' because many girls pursued him."

“When I came back from my first summer break, my two older brothers beat me up and then dragged me out into the sun to bake in the scorching sun. That's when I changed my ways and never went around flirting with other women again.”

"I returned to Peking University when I was pursuing my graduate studies."

"The second son assigned him the task of creating an economic model. He certainly knew how to spend money; he took 4000 million from a supermarket in Chinatown and hired several professors to create the model."

“That’s called knowing how to use people,” Xu Jinqiu retorted.

The reason for his appearance was to endorse Xiao Wu: "It's true that Xiao Wu knows how to spend money, but he is best at integrating resources, which is better than the second brother."

"Of the five children, the fifth one is the most sentimental."

“I spent a lot of time in the countryside when I was a child, and I spent three summers in high school. I have a deep affection for the countryside, and now I’m starting to do projects to help farmers.”

"After the New Year, Xiao Wu went to the countryside and stayed for several months. He was tanned like a lump of coal and worked in the fields all day."

A video went viral on Douyin a few days ago.

A huge screen was placed on the side of the coffee table. Xu Jinqiu had it turned on and played the video of the car being impounded a few days ago for stealing strawberries.

After the video ended: "What was stolen was Xiao Wu's project, which was also an accident. He was working with 15 villages there as an experimental base."

"The main goal is to encourage villagers to raise local pigs and chickens, as well as engage in organic farming, including organic vegetables and some organic fruits."

"The model is also very reasonable."

"Just like raising pigs and chickens, the company pays for the piglets, chicks, and feed, while the villagers contribute their labor. After the pigs are raised, the company buys them back, and the farmers don't spend a penny throughout the whole process."

"It's the same with growing vegetables and fruits."

As he spoke, he had someone play the next video, which was specially sent to the village for an interview to introduce the project's cooperation model and the farmers' income.

The scene shifts to a supermarket in Chinatown.

Supermarkets in Chinatowns in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen all have "Chen Xiaowu Green Food" counters, and each food item on the counter has a label attached.

The purchase price, cost price, sales price, and organic certification indicators are all clearly stated.

The main focus is sincerity!
The data reveals that the profit margin is actually very low. Combined with interviews with villagers, it's easy to see that the villagers take the lion's share of the profits.

After the broadcast, Xu Jinqiu said, "To be honest, my youngest son has always been mischievous since he was a child. I never imagined that he would grow up to do such a project out of passion."

The chat room became lively.

"They're all Chinatown supermarkets, why don't we have any specialty stores here?"

"We also strongly demand fairness."

"Teacher Xu, ask your son Xiao Wu, our village has a lot of land and many elderly people, is it possible for us to cooperate?"

"I want to go back to my village to farm."

……

Having achieved her goal, Xu Jinqiu summarized: "The third son will inherit Feixing Mobile, the fifth son will inherit Chinatown Supermarket, and the rest will all go to the second son."

"None of my uncle, niece, eldest son, or fourth son were willing to share the burden."

"I'm also puzzled."

No one understood her distress.

After all, it's too far removed from ordinary people. Even other wealthy people in China can't understand it, nor do they have that much money to understand it.

Ni Ping made a few jokes before changing the subject: "All five children, are they all married now?"

“Our family encourages early marriage. Chen Fan was only 18 when he and Teacher Xu started dating, and our children all got married relatively early,” Zeng Ali explained.

After thinking for a moment, she continued, "The eldest son-in-law is the son of Senior Brother Chen Fan. The two children grew up together and are childhood sweethearts."

"It's an adult, tsk tsk..."

Zeng Ali glanced at her husband with disdain: "He and Senior Brother Sun are both the kind of people who are particularly sarcastic. They start bickering as soon as they meet, and they'll do whatever it takes to insult each other."

"After the two children were born, Senior Brother Sun said that he wanted the eldest child to be his daughter-in-law."

“陈凡一气之下，就教闺女打人，每次大姑爷过来，都会被老大一顿揍，老大爱打架，就是这么惯出来的。”

"Senior Brother Sun is also one."

“When the child gets a little older, he will leave the child here every weekend. He doesn’t care if his son is beaten; he just wants to annoy Chen Fan.”

"Wait until the two children are officially in a relationship."

"Chen Fan immediately exploded, picked up a stick and chased after him, chasing his son-in-law all the way from his home to Nanluoguxiang before being stopped by tourists."

puff...

Ni Ping and Xiao Sa laughed loudly. Adults using children as a raft to spite each other—you can imagine how mean these two fellow disciples are; neither of them are good people.

"The eldest son-in-law doesn't hold a grudge?" Ni Ping asked with a smile.

"Even if you gave him ten lives, he wouldn't dare. He grew up at home since he was a kid. It's easy to deal with him. I'm just trying to annoy his father. He's been holding back his anger," Chen Fan complained.

Zeng Ali joked, "Come on, my brother married my sister-in-law. When they were officially dating, he did the same thing. He picked up a stick and chased her to Beihai Park, only to be arrested by the police."

"If you want to marry your daughter, you'd better be quick."

"If you don't run fast enough, you'll get a beating. And when Xiaoyu was dating Zhou Xu, how did you play Zhou Xu for a fool?"

"Xiao Sa, do you speak Cantonese?"

"Level 8!" Xiao Sa boasted.

Zeng Ali squinted her eyes: "Then help me translate a sentence. Listen carefully, every country has its own national anthem."

Xiao Sa immediately started singing: "Hehehe..."

"Ha ha……"

The audience burst into laughter, and those watching the live stream also roared with laughter. Xiao Sa, belatedly realizing what had happened, was speechless: "You guys are so mean!"

"That's how he cheated on his brother-in-law back then."

Zeng Ali smiled and said, "Anyway, it won't be easy for him to marry a daughter of the Chen family, and it won't be easy for him to marry a daughter-in-law either."

“Once he discovers that the children are dating, he has people investigate their family history for three generations and also finds a group of sociologists and psychologists to study them.”

"We will only allow it if we are sure the girl is okay."

“Back then, the second son had a girlfriend, but he didn’t think it was a good match, so he pretended not to know. It wasn’t until he started dating Wanwan and A-Ling that he was very satisfied with them.”

"Wanwan, A-Ling, is your second child?" Xiao Sa narrowed her eyes and retorted decisively.

(End of this chapter)